Show I 1 world ixos iosso IOs Do sept lat lm 40 the gatt sham struggle between conten ling fleet for tile the ports ana boist line of britain Is now oer admiral baard the commander of the defending not on monday signalled signal led from his flagship the northumberland at anchor in the downs the order to cea e fighting and now all that lff Is to consider proult of tho which bave for some time past attracted every blodys attention admiral bairas bairds opinion Is that life force did well to p re v e n t any advantage being saintil by the assumed enemy over tle channel squadron and to maintain the de fences of the thames and the capital ile states that the strength of his fleet was not sufficient to permit him to keep many of the of a powerful foe permanently sit Bere haven and so prevent the capture of clyde and bemey ports and the bombardment of other important places along british coasts had not the blockade been malsed when it was the enemy could in the end have escaped and acting in unison with his cruising squadron crippled by smart movement tile defensive channel fleet or else sailed down the thames and menaced union it W baird fm all elloris to attain either of these objects and protected the thames and the channel the opposing fleet carried on their n erat loni under ceri tain carefully dianea rules which regulated the points of and laid down at what moment a ship was out of action or a port passed into the possession the re the prevention of their capture by the too formed tile chief object of the admirals for cal advantAge was held to decide the issue there was thus all the work of actual ivar witta any of its stimulating incident and to cheer on the combatants to ceaseless endeavor it was more like a big chess ame with the ocean and coast line for bogad and with ships guns and lack tars for pieces than it was like a real marine campaign asaumi rs rd himself las said the hole case re solved itself into an arithmetical suat the chances of battle were alto ther disregarded no account 1 alen AL was en of such eventualities as a smaller ship overcoming a greater by better handling br pluckier persistence of cauree this mathematical exactitude and calculating coolness f c d a valuable feature of the ma 01 n rez which aimed at giving the admiralty a practical groundwork for preparation against every possibility and no doubt very excellent lessons have been learned from what has been late along the seaboard tee maneu have in no respect been a display for ahe edif leation of the sightseer but havo in every way conflated con plated of bard land well planned work there Is s been no stately parading of ships of the line in magnificent review 9 ra rity no big mock battle with its thunder of a thousand guns and its impenetrable panoply of smoke yet the education to all concerned has been incalculably greater than would have been the case under conditions miny people anticipated a pitched battle at the manth of the chanies or in the dawns beleen anad fending fleeto yet fuel was not it being J no martof the admiralty it wax strategy egy and chich were pitted together and I 1 he mean ingless waste of bowder would have baen in but an extravagant superfluity admiral baw found it possible nith the ships placed under his command to protect lon don and its river and to keep his channel fleet safe from our prise and capture the question I 1 a has england a supplement of war vessels to maintain the do fences of the rest of the isiel against all comers there are the ships which formed the cledt recently in amused hostility to admiral baird and them are a few others which might in emergency be mabb available it is greatly to be feared however when all are taken into that the aggregate marine M found looking the light of the just con eluded lamentably I 1 if britain wem baith in ITAL coast defenses defences de fences might be greatly without alarm inge x pend iture if full advantage advant aga were taken of volunteer assistance and if volunteer engineer corps were greatly extended in coast there is i reason why a good deal of tion work could not be ly erected greatly to the safeguarding 0 the country in this connection a movement on the mersey which has resulted in the co of a company of sub marine miners deserves mention and the idea thereby proved practical should certainly N worked under authority by citizen defenders sir samuel baker too comes with a suggestion in one of the monthlies that government should subsidize all merchant steamers of over fourteen knots speed and aenk them with modern six inch guns and a sufficiency of ammunition making pro ision at the same time for training the crews in firing and other fight ing operations by sir samuel bakers plan england would get a supplementary fleet of over ships at little comparative cost and there Is small fear that ship owners would refuse to fall in heartily with the government view if the matter were asked up A good deal has lately been said about the diet of british soldier and at least one of the highest authorities ties upon english military affairs has roundly declared that they do not got enough to eat any increase however in the quantity of meat al lowyd would form a very serious ad to the estimates and as bas well been out it Is not a vion of amore quantify qu attify as an dint system of a q city voli would do atsch to kelp the voli ba I 1 therefore ion suggested that castru bioni should given at the military col on the subject of the quality of and how to good from the bad and that stringent should be f d as to the rejection of any article of food that does not come up 19 the stati dard tho further suggestion sug gAstion Is made that the mode of cooking should be who alth garris on life aill know t bat this a great deal it Is certain that englishmen re very far indeed from desiring to limit the food of their soldiers but the matter Is practically raised they will ansis that whatever Is supplied shall be put to the the holiday season had not fairly sot in before we began to hear of the customary crop of accidents to english seekers both at home and abroad As for abose at home they ere af if vu comry kind bathing and appear as common as ever and unhappily many of them were quite preventable it reasonable precaution had been taken the same may be maldof some of those abich are reported from the continent it 6 in mountain that most of there occur and they will continue to a 4 long as travelers ire sufficiently foolhardy to think that a professional or business man who in at big office eleven months oat of the twelve and has perhaps never seen a hilf m uch higher thans table before ca n e ti t m b mountains without preparation prepa ratio n a nd as if to the manner born even with the most experienced mountaineers them Is always a certain element of risk in the pursuit and that Is of nece sisty multiplied to a very large degree when inexperienced persons rashly attempt to to what guides will be inclined to shrink from signor crispi bag replied to AT gobi let not on the Mas difficulty the italian premier says his govern ment will endeavor to set aside any argument might prolong with ont any practical a discussion which the two should be equally anxious to terminate ile maintains that Mas had been abando egypt and the porte and had to be occupied by some pow or and that it was not necess my to notify to the other powers its occupation by italy ile as erts that the french had no interests at Mas and that france intervened in favor of the greek inhabitants with the object of bringing about the present incident bignor crispi coh eludes by say T his government Is now anxious to regard the question at an end and says it will defend 6 the laba in the IW sea the interests it has taken under its care WAR NOW THAT Ya ChUng and ocean vol ages are reduced to guch a luxurious the mind of science Is busy with plans to 0 v ercol e th e one dr A w back be a BIC k n e as I 1 n A r ece lat issue of a medical journal the 9 malady Is and two sim ale remedies are gaen one Ls to rub vigorously with the fingers the pro behind the ears the other Is oxalate of cerium taken in fifteen every tio hours both are a edited with numerous cures FREDERIK THE grkman as he is now called enwiya hough only few dead a 1 us as frederick it ia buhi 4 Lle atif rim r ut r asil fire in afflit Ff lit VU au bv ti tiou 1 4 ay tok ba led to a suit for lill the Lieb paper aich published it I 1 liberty NES for all but not al ways for nothing her statue in new york harbor uses nearly 30 worth of electricity every night I 1 ayes spectacles and crows 0 I 1 the results offer 8 gum chewing do you think of it girls X lo i vic ditl x fair go will ladt for twenty years nearly as long as it takes our depot to build miss elizabeth cleveland is said to speak four foreign languages fluently but when she shakes a mouse t of her skirts bet 1 second hand bustle against a chicago lawyers check that she yells in plain unadulterated E anglish st louis gagarine Va garine I 1 I 1 th e major ity of old 0 are women among me 11 diers and farmers aroche longest lived A re cent investigator found ministers who had passed the century limit but he found only thirty doctors lea lawyers ten actors and not one editor another evidence that tile good dio young oil |